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23 September 1998 (USA) morePlot:
In 1935, 99-year-old former slave Shadrach asks to be buried on the soil where he was born to slavery... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Authentic and nostalgic moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Martin Sheen | ... | Narrator (voice) | |
| John Franklin Sawyer | ... | Shadrach | |
| Scott Terra | ... | Paul | |
| Ginnie Randall | ... | Virginia | |
| Darrell Larson | ... | Father | |
| Deborah Hedwall | ... | Mother | |
| Jonathan Parks Jordan | ... | Middle Mole | |
| Erin Underwood | ... | Lucinda | |
| Alice Rogers | ... | Cloris | |
| Monica Bugajski | ... | Edmonia | |
| Daniel Treat | ... | Little Mole | |
| Andie MacDowell | ... | Trixie | |
| Michael Ruff | ... | Smut | |
| Muse Watson | ... | Captain | |
| Doug Chancey | ... | Dock Worker |
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Rated PG-13 for language and brief sexuality.Parents Guide:
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89 min | France:98 minCountry:
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Wilmington, North Carolina, USAFun Stuff
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Harvey Keitel and Martin Sheen learned their accents for this film from James L.W. West, while Andie MacDowell, who is a native Southerner, developed her own accent. Keitel spent most of a day talking with West and taping his speech. Sheen later listened to these tapes. moreGoofs:
Anachronisms: The film is set in 1935. When Paul walks into the house past his father and up the stairs (at the beginning of the film), a smoke detector is visible on the ceiling at the bottom of the stairs. moreSoundtrack:
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How refreshing it is to see a movie about northeastern North Carolina-southeastern Virginia that could actually have been filmed in the area and that features people who could actually have lived here! Well, it was a bit hard to believe that after living a hard life and birthing that many children, Andie McDowell's character would still look young, thin, and pretty. If I thought it would make me look like that, I'd take up drinking beer.
Amazingly, Harvey Keitel is believable as the irascible father, and his accent is even tolerable. Perhaps what is amazing is his versatility as an actor, since he was also believable as Baines in "The Piano," Auggie in "Smoke" and "Blue in the Face," the police detective in "Thelma and Louise," and all those heavies in all those gangster films.
What should you expect if you view this film? A glimpse at what this part of the world looked like before WWII and farm-to-market roads and typhoid shots and birth control; a child's-eye view of growing up in a rural family in the Depression; a story about doing what's right. I liked it.